Theoretical framework

The framework mixes theories from different disciplines (anthropology, sociology, media studies, and new literacy studies) in order to develop an analysis of latino/youth media practices across three societal realms/arenas. In a series of case studies, I would analyze the diverse kinds of participation, identities, and literacies that latino/hispanic youth develop at home, afterschool, and the internet. My analysis will take into account the different capitals that youth is able to access, gain, or loose as they do media practices, develop literacies, and participate.

Why? in order to provide a deeper understanding of the texture of the media practices that latino/hispanic youth are doing. The thick description of the practices will reveal how the variations of participation across realms are related to an uneven development of literacies, and the lack of cultural, social, and economic capitals.

By developing this framework I hope to grasp part of the complexity and diversity of the latino/hispanic youth digitally mediated everyday life, the interconnection among literacies and their uneven development, and the changes in participation and identities depending on the social realms/arenas/fields or contexts. All of that, between the the specific characteristics of a population of low and middle-low class, of a particular ethnicity and country of origin, and with specific volumes of capitals.

Youth and digital media

learning outside of school

social network sites

boyd

Watkins

afterschool

Buckingham

Sefton-Green

home environment

Livingston

Media Practices and the Practice Turn

Couldry

Tchasky

New Literacy Studies

this could also be explained as addressing the relationship between language, literacy and sociocultural practices.
a group of scholars from different disciplines: linguistics, anthropology, history, education, and other areas. Literacy as a sociocultural phenomenon. Read and write with the values and practices of different social and cultural groups. "Ways in which people socioculturally organize themselves to engage in activities." Different social, institutional, cultural, and historical contexts of use and different effects.